Cempaka Belanda: Political prisoners in Indonesia, a brief history

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Political prisoners in Indonesia, a brief history

Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 1 May 2010 - 1:31pm | By Sirtjo Koolhof

Pramoedya Ananta Toer - (Photo: Facebook/Marianne Klute)

The history of political prisoners in the Tropic of Emerald (a Dutch nickname for Indonesia) is centuries old. As far back as the days of the Dutch East India Company, unacceptable opinions were harshly suppressed.

Overly critical individuals were locked up before being banished to distant regions. This is what happened at the end of the 17th century to Syekh Yusuf, a Islamic teacher from Makassar who – together with his family – was deported by the Dutch East India Company to South Africa’s Cape colony for his opinions.

Diponegoro, a Javan prince, waged a five-year war in the 1830s against the Dutch rulers. Taken prisoner after being invited to take part in negotiations, he spent the rest of his life in exile in Makassar.

Indonesian nationalism

In the 20th century, the rise of Indonesian nationalism was an obvious source of displeasure for the colonial Dutch-Indonesian government. The leaders of the nationalist movement, Sukarno, Hatta and other were regularly arrested, imprisoned or banished to the remote corners of the archipelago. But it turned out to be impossible to banish their ideals and opinions from the hearts of the Indonesian population.

In 1945, Sukarno and Hatta proclaimed the independent republic of Indonesia. Following a bitter struggle against the Netherlands, which was determined to take charge of its colony after the Second World War, the young republic entered calm waters. Sukarno and Hatta became the country’s first president and vice-president.

RMS

The young democratic republic of Indonesia still had to contend with the aftermath of decolonisation. Regional movements that had no wish to join the republic, such as the Republic of the South Moluccas (RMS) for example, were as good as destroyed by the new government. Participants were locked up for years.

At the end of the 1950s, President Sukarno’s government became increasingly authoritarian. He announced the principle of ‘controlled democracy’ and severely limited the number of political parties. Various prominent politicians, for example Sutan Sjahrir, Indonesia’s first prime minister and the leader of the Socialist Party, were interned with their families. Nor were journalists critical of the president’s politics immune. Mochtar Lubis, editor-in-chief of the Indonesia Raya newspaper, paid for his criticisms with house arrest and many years in jail.

Suharto

In 1965, the up to then relatively unknown General Suharto came to power in a still insufficiently understood military coup that also involved the Communist Party. In a subsequent orgy of violence, hundreds of thousands of suspected communists and sympathisers were murdered.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer, the celebrated writer and prominent member of the artists’ organisation LEKRA, which was also allied to the Communist Party, survived the slaughter. But together with tens of thousands of companions in adversity, he paid for his political views with years of internment. Until 1979, he and thousands of others were imprisoned under harsh conditions on the Moluccan island of Buru. Following his release, he still had to undergo years of house arrest. Others suffered similar fates. For decades they, and members of their families, were branded as (ex-)communists, a title that ensured that good jobs remained beyond their reach.

New Order

Suharto’s military regime, known by its name of New Order, continued to rule with a heavy hand. In 1974, after large-scale riots broke out in Jakarta during a visit by the Japanese prime minister, there was another wave of arrests. Mochtar Lubis, the journalist who had also been arrested for his critical outlook during Sukarno’s reign, was imprisoned once again and his newspaper banned.

Suharto’s resignation in 1998 signalled the end of the authoritarian New Order. Indonesia then entered a period of unprecedented democracy, press freedom and freedom of expression. The strict press laws were replaced and the number of political parties, as well as independent media, exploded.

Unitary state

But giving voice to a dissident opinion is still not, however, totally risk-free. Under New Order, criticism of the government and ‘incorrect’ political convictions were reasons enough to earn years of internment. After the fall of New Order, it became apparent that actions and opinions that threatened the unitary state of Indonesia could also result in harsh punishments.

Supporters of the Republic of the South Moluccas, the movement that emerged at the beginning of the 1950s in the aftermath of decolonisation, paid for a demonstration in the presence of the Indonesia president with years of imprisonment. And in Papua, the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea, supporters of the struggle for independence have also found themselves in prison.

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